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GPSOLO April/May 2008
Juvenile Delinquency
Current Issues, Best Practices, and Promising Approaches
According to the 2006 edition of Current Population Reports published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, there are now more than 70 million children under age 18 in the United States, which is more than 25 percent of the U.S. population. This number is expected to exceed 80 million by the year 2020. What these numbers suggest is the magnitude and diversity of the issues affecting children in this country, particularly those children at risk who fall into the juvenile justice system.
This growing problem has received national attention, particularly within the ABA. Karen Mathis, in her capacity as President of the American Bar Association, created the ABA Commission on Youth at Risk to undertake a year–long effort to identify the challenges facing this population. (For more, see the article "Hope for the Future" on page 48.) The Federal Bureau of Investigation in its 2002 report, Crime in the United States, reported that about 1.5 million youths under age 18 are arrested each year for crimes ranging from loitering to murder. In addition, more than 700,000 youths belong to street gangs.
In addition, research shows that young people engage in other risky behaviors. For example, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP):
- 10 percent had driven a car or other vehicle when they had been drinking alcohol.
- 18 percent had carried a weapon.
- 43 percent had drunk alcohol.
- 8 percent had attempted suicide.
- 53 percent of high school students had engaged in sexual intercourse.
History of the Juvenile Justice System
Until the twentieth century, there was little difference between how the justice system treated adults and children. Age was considered only in terms of appropriate punishment, and juveniles were eligible for the same punishment as adults, including the death penalty.
Over the course of the last century, attitudes toward children who committed crimes began to change. The term "delinquent child" rather than "criminal" began its development with the creation of the first separate juvenile courts, owing in large part to the development of the philosophy of "parens patriae."
Under this philosophy, criminal behavior on the part of juveniles was seen as a sign of a lack of parental care and control. Therefore, the state should step in and exercise supervision and control before the juveniles committed more serious crime.
The adoption of this concept allowed for different treatment of juveniles by the judicial system. However, parens patriae did not resolve all legal issues regarding juveniles. In fact, disparate treatment of juveniles remained a fact of life, particularly within the judicial system. This issue was ultimately addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court, beginning around 1960.
All states now have a "Juvenile Code" or "Children's Code" that provides specific substantive and procedural rules for juveniles in the juvenile justice system. In addition to mandating state juvenile code requirements, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated constitutional due process standards in juvenile proceedings.
In the matter of a juvenile by the name of Gerald Gault (In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S. Ct. 1248 (1967)), the U.S. Supreme Court established that a juvenile accused of a crime is entitled to the same due process rights guaranteed to adults, namely the right to counsel, the right to notice, and the right to confront and cross–examine witnesses, as well as the privilege against self–incrimination. This was a significant change. Previously, the attitude had been that children did not need these rights—the state was bound to act in their best interest under the parens patriae doctrine.
As a result of these decisions and the evolving research that has been conducted regarding children, we now have fully separate criminal judicial systems for adults and children. As an example, children are no longer "sentenced"; they are subject to a "disposition," and the focus in the juvenile system is not on punishment or retribution but rehabilitation and restitution.
Delinquency and Detention
Juvenile delinquency in the United States, because of its emphasis on rehabilitation and the remnants of the parens patriae doctrine or the requirement that the state act in the best interest of children, has become an increasingly complex subject. Research in this area is more sociological and behavioral than legal.
Some of the causes and conditions of delinquency are obvious: poverty, drugs, gangs, abuse and neglect, and truancy. It is also clear that there are higher rates of detention and probation within minority racial and ethnic groups. However, this understanding only scratches the surface. How do we address these issues in attempting to prevent delinquency? Whose responsibility is it to address these issues? What approaches should be utilized, and who pays?
We are confronted by a society that is becoming more complex, more mobile, and more dysfunctional. Teen pregnancy, suicide, smoking, running away, and the use of dangerous drugs such as methamphetamine have become common problems addressed in the juvenile justice system. In addition, children do not settle their disputes as they once did. Guns, knives, and other weapons are now commonly used. Unfortunately, the juvenile justice system is the dumping ground for many of these problems. One alarming statistic reported by the U.S. Surgeon General is that one in ten children in the United States suffers from a mental illness. Of those, 60 percent to 70 percent are children of color whose only access to mental health treatment is through the juvenile justice system. We spend approximately $12 billion a year treating these mental health issues.
Too many times, these issues are not seen or addressed until a child has been detained or incarcerated. Thus, detention of juveniles has become a major function of the juvenile justice system. However, we have learned that detention alone is not the answer.
Each year in the United States, approximately 600,000 minor boys and girls cycle through juvenile detention facilities after being arrested and while awaiting further legal action (data from 1998, as reported in Building Blocks for Youth, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2003; and National Juvenile Detention Association and Youth Law Center, 1998). Detention is not an equal opportunity program: Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as the detention population grew, four out of five newly detained youths were youths of color (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2002).
The majority of detained youths are not the older, violent offenders that the public assumes are under lock and key. Many are quite young. More than half are aged 15 or younger and a third are aged 14 or younger. Nearly 70 percent are not being held for violent offenses (National Center for Juvenile Justice, 1999).
Harsh conditions and over–crowding in detention facilities lead to increased reports of suicide attempts, stress–related illnesses, and psychiatric problems (National Juvenile Detention Association and Youth Law Center, 1998). Youths who had been in a detention center were more likely than those who had never been in a jail or a detention center to have used illicit drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes in the past year (National Survey on Drug Use and Health, February 27, 2004). Past–year substance abuse or dependence was almost three times higher among youths who had been in a jail or detention center at least once in their lifetime than among those who had never been in a jail or detention center (National Survey on Drug Use and Health, February 27, 2004).
The cost to taxpayers of operating one detention bed over a 20–year period is between $1.25 million and $1.5 million dollars (National Juvenile Detention Association, 2003). Yet, most detention centers are only able to warehouse children and do not provide the multitude of services necessary to properly address these children's needs. It is clear that, for the most part, rehabilitation is a myth in juvenile detention centers.
Alternatives to Detention
Statistics such as these have prompted those in the juvenile justice system to consider alternatives to detention. The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has been at the forefront of this issue. Named after the mother of the founder of United Parcel Service, the AECF has spent millions of dollars through the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) developing alternatives to detention and appropriate programs for those children for whom there is no alternative to detention. The idea is to minimize, not eliminate, the use of secure detention while preserving community safety. Clearly, there are children for whom detention is appropriate; these children present a significant flight risk or are a danger to themselves or others. However, it is clear that detention of juveniles has been used inappropriately in many cases.
For example, as a former children's court judge, I had occasion to consider the detention of an eight–year–old child who had assaulted another child with a knife. I also had to consider the detention of children with mental illnesses and violent tendencies. Is detention appropriate in those cases? What about children who have no home and no parental supervision? We are often confronted with absent parents or family and a lack of shelter beds and no place for a child to go but detention. This is clearly inappropriate.
Detention Reform
The purpose of the JDAI is to demonstrate that jurisdictions can safely reduce reliance on secure detention. The AECF is testing the hypothesis that detention reforms will equip juvenile justice systems with values, skills, and policies that will improve results in other components of the system. The JDAI's objectives are to:
- eliminate the inappropriate or unnecessary use of secure detention;
- minimize re–arrest and failure–to–appear rates pending adjudication;
- ensure appropriate conditions of confinement in secure facilities;
- redirect public finances to sustain successful reforms; and
- reduce racial and ethnic disparities.
In attempting to reach these objectives, the various JDAI sites have adopted certain core strategies developed by the AECF (see www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/JuvenileDetentionAlternativesInitiative/CoreStrategies.aspx). Below, these core strategies will be cited, followed by a brief discussion of each.
First, "collaboration between the major juvenile justice agencies, other governmental entities, and community organizations is key. Without collaboration, even well–designed reforms are likely to flounder or be subverted. A formal structure within which to undertake joint planning and policymaking is essential." Too often, children's issues have become a "turf war" where the parties do not proceed as if they are equals in the process. The court can exercise tremendous leadership in this area and use the power of the bench to bring people together.
"Next, the use of accurate data, both to diagnose the system's problems and proclivities and to assess the impact of various reforms, is critical. Without hard facts, myths and anecdotes will rule the system and preclude agreement on key aspects of policy and practice." This is more of a problem than many realize. Unless the data collection system used is uniform among all of the parties involved, and it often is not, data collected runs the risk of being inaccurate and, worse, useless.
"Objective admissions criteria and instruments must be developed to replace subjective decision making at all points where choices to place children in secure custody are made." Many states are developing risk assessment instruments in order to objectively evaluate the need for secure detention. New Mexico mandates the use of their instrument by juvenile probation before detaining a child.
"New or enhanced non–secure alternatives to detention must be implemented in order to increase the options available for arrested youth. These programs must be careful to target only youth who would otherwise be locked up. Whenever possible, they should be based in those neighborhoods where detention cases are concentrated and operated by local organizations." This strategy requires that the community be involved in creating community alternatives to detention. The system is overburdened, and responsibility in this area needs to be shared with the community.
"Case processing reforms must be introduced to expedite the flow of cases through the system. These changes reduce lengths of stay in custody, expand the availability of non–secure program slots, and ensure that interventions with youth are timely and appropriate." This strategy requires leadership by the court and collaboration among probation, the prosecution, and defense counsel. This is where the parties need to be reminded that it is the "best interest of the child" that is paramount. The priority of these parties should be the prompt provision of referrals to services and prompt adjudication rather than the number of successful prosecutions or defenses they can obtain. Advocacy must be subordinated to the needs of the child. In my jurisdiction, for example, we enacted a simple reform whereby the prosecutor would send over a plea offer at the same time that discovery was sent to the public defender. This resulted in many cases being resolved within two weeks of the petition being filed.
"Special detention cases—youth in custody as a result of probation violations, writs, and warrants, as well as youth awaiting placement—must be re–examined and new practices implemented to minimize their presence in the secure facility." Again, leadership by the court is key because the court holds ultimate responsibility for ordering detention in many of these cases. Also, the prosecution and defense must collaborate to reach agreements on how to handle these cases. The majority of juveniles in detention are under 15 years of age, and many of these have committed probation violations such as truancy, possession of alcohol, curfew violations, shoplifting, or vandalism. Is secure detention appropriate, or are there alternatives such as increased supervision, house arrest, electronic monitoring, or placement outside the home that can be utilized?
"Reducing racial disparities requires specific strategies (in addition to those listed above) aimed at eliminating bias and ensuring a level playing field for youth of color. Change in this arena also requires persistent, determined leadership because the sensitive nature of these discussions and changes frequently provoke defensiveness and avoidance." In my experience, the vast majority of children in detention are children of color. In my jurisdiction, we have a large Hispanic population (about 45 percent) and a very small African American population (2 percent). Yet, 95 percent to 100 percent of the children in detention are Hispanic or African American. Are these children the only children committing delinquent acts? Why are they the only ones being detained? The answer may have nothing to do with ethnicity or race; however, it certainly does not mean that this issue should be ignored.
"Improving conditions of confinement is most likely to occur when facilities are routinely inspected by knowledgeable individuals applying rigorous protocols and ambitious standards. Absent this kind of consistent scrutiny, conditions in secure facilities are unlikely to improve and often will deteriorate." We must not ignore juvenile facilities as we routinely do with adult facilities. Today in New Mexico, children may not be incarcerated with adults. However, this was not the case until approximately 1975. And it still is not uncommon in small jurisdictions for children to be jailed in cells with or adjoining adults. This is a dangerous and unacceptable practice that is fraught with tremendous potential liability for your community.
In addition, essential programs—even school—are not routinely provided in juvenile detention centers. Simply warehousing juveniles does nothing to rehabilitate them, and we face the prospect of releasing these young people back into our communities without addressing any of their needs. Unfortunately, the recidivism rate for juveniles is very high because we fail to understand the nature of the problem. In response, the American Correctional Association (ACA) has developed national standards for juvenile facilities, which examine not only the physical structure of the facility but also medical, educational, and vocational programs.
Model Sites
There are no easy solutions to these difficult problems. However, four communities—Bernalillo County (Albuquerque), New Mexico; Multnomah County (Portland), Oregon; Cook County, Illinois; and Santa Cruz, California—have all been designated as "models" by the AECF.
What can we learn from the model sites? Cook County, Illinois, reduced its average daily juvenile population in locked detention from 682 to 420 between 1996 and 2005. Cook County developed alternatives to locked detention for young people who are not a serious flight threat or a serious risk of committing additional delinquent acts; the county developed community–based, evening reporting centers that offer constructive activities during afternoons and early evenings while allowing youth to stay at home and in school. Children are released to their community, and the community supervises them. As a condition of release, these youths are required to report to the center, where they learn or improve their social skills and are able to obtain vocational and educational support. These reporting centers can make referrals to such programs as anger management, substance abuse, and parenting. Cook County has saved more than $2 million annually in reduced detention costs.
Multnomah County, Oregon, substantially reduced the disproportionate confinement of minority youth by lowering the overall population in detention by 65 percent and enacting targeted strategies aimed at reducing disparities. Those strategies included culturally appropriate community–based alternatives, such as shelter care, home detention, and a day reporting center. Multnomah developed an objective, culturally sensitive risk assessment instrument and created a seven–person intake team to review each and every detention decision. The county expedited procedures to process cases, which reduced lengths of stay in detention and implemented non–secure sanctions for probation violators. As a result, the likelihood that an arrested youth will be detained is now about the same for all racial and ethnic groups. Prior to implementing these reforms, Multnomah County had actually increased the number of detention beds in its facility. Ultimately, the county simply accepted the fact that it had been incarcerating too many juveniles inappropriately. Multnomah has been successful in converting the areas where juveniles were previously held into classrooms and other facilities where services can be provided—at a significant cost savings to the county.
Santa Cruz County, California, sharply reduced its detention population while concurrently experiencing a reduction in juvenile crime. Santa Cruz's detention reform efforts saved the county millions of dollars by avoiding the construction and staffing of a new detention facility. Since implementing detention reform, the juvenile hall population has been reduced by more than half; it averaged more than 50 youth per day in 1996 but only 22 in 2005. In addition, juvenile felony arrests are down 48 percent, and misdemeanor arrests are down 43 percent. Santa Cruz used an objective screening process to detain only high–risk offenders, and it developed alternative programs and procedures for low– and medium–risk youth. Santa Cruz developed meaningful partnerships with community–based organizations to provide culturally responsive alternatives to detention, as well as programming from diversion to family preservation. The reduction of racial/ethnic disparities and disproportionate minority confinement has been an integral component of its detention reform work. As a result, Santa Cruz has significantly narrowed the gap between Latino youth representation in the general population and the detention population.
Bernalillo County, New Mexico, largely through the efforts of my good friend Tom Swisstack, the director of the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center, reduced its detention population by 44 percent. In order to achieve this outcome, Bernalillo County methodically reorganized its resources, budget, and staff to focus on community–based treatment and innovative policies that cost taxpayers less money. Then the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center convinced the county not to reduce its budget but to allow it to reallocate salaries for correctional officers and other correctional staff who were no longer needed to front–end services, such as counselors and community supervision staff. Bernalillo County was able to close secure units, saving the county hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some of the cost savings went into acquiring portable buildings outside the detention center's razor–wire fence to house an alternative public school, a community–custody program, a day treatment program, and a mental health clinic in response to a lack of those services in the community.
These programs have all successfully reduced the use of secure detention for juveniles without increasing the safety concerns of their communities. In addition, they have saved their communities millions of dollars. All it required was the courage of these communities to realize that they had been doing something wrong. In a San Francisco study of high–risk youths, participants placed in an alternative program to detention were 26 percent less likely to be re–arrested upon completion of the program than similar youths released from secure detention facilities (Center on Juvenile Crime and Criminal Justice, 1999).
What is necessary is the courage to reallocate the resources used for detention into programs that truly address the causes and conditions of delinquency. It is clear that where the focus is solely on punishment and deterrence, the problem only grows larger.
Florencio (Larry) Ramirez is a former children's court judge of the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and a former chair of the GP|Solo Division. He is of counsel with Carrillo Law, L.L.C., in Las Cruces and may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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So yeah, been making a proper effort to do writing since feeling more motivated after a while on medication. Got a zine of my poems and photographs done:
Anyone that wants one is free to drop me a PM and I'll send them one along. Also been working on some other projects, got a short play for a local theatre group in the works and also a novella with the working title of Dungeons & Dickheads. It's a fantasy romp with profanities and innuendos and ogres. Pretty much every character is a pervert. Think Pratchett meets Viz.
Also working on some other non-fiction stuff but that's kinda on the back burner. While I have a shit-ton of REAL LIFE RESPONSIBILITIES to chug through at the moment I'm just trying to take it as easy as possible so I don't end up going on a killing spree.
If you wanna keep an eye on my writing some of it is on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/alunparker1987 though most of my posts are related to politics and charity work. Or mildly trolling Peter Hitchens.

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The latest entertainment briefs.
Halle Berry and Chaka Khan will be honored at the 2013 BET Honors.
The network announced last Thursday that basketball star Lisa Leslie, music executive Clarence Avant and religious leader T.D. Jakes will also be celebrated at the Jan. 12 event in Washington, D.C., at the Warner Theatre. The special will air Feb. 11.
BET Honors highlights African Americans performing at top levels in the areas of music, literature, entertainment, education and more.
Maya Angelou was among the honorees at this year's BET Honors. First Lady Michelle Obama presented her award.
Actress Gabrielle Union will host the special. Performers will be announced at a later date.
Singer KEM helps out
Students at a Detroit elementary school have been treated to free haircuts courtesy of R&B vocalist KEM.
The Detroit native arranged for a barber to visit Golightly Education Center last Tuesday and Wednesday.
Principal Sherrell Hobbs says 19 boys in kindergarten through fifth grade received haircuts. She says the gesture is another example of how KEM gives back to the community.
KEM hosted a free concert and food drive to benefit Detroit's homeless last year. The Grammy nominee has said his past included drug addiction and being homeless.
L.A. Reid moving on
L.A. Reid will soon be an ex-judge on "The X Factor."
The veteran music executive is not returning to the Fox singing competition series next season, a representative for Epic Records said recently. Reid is currently the chairman and CEO of Epic, a division of Sony Entertainment.
Reid joined the American version of the show last year along with creator Simon Cowell. This season also boasts Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as judges.
Last year, Reid left his job as chairman and CEO of Island Def Jam Music Group, where he helped launch careers for acts like Rihanna and Justin Bieber. At Epic, his roster includes Sade, Fiona Apple, Karmin, Ciara and "X Factor" season one winner Melanie Amaro.
Kravitz as Marvin Gaye
Lenny Kravitz has signed on for his first leading film role, playing singer Marvin Gaye in a biopic that will be shot next year.
The rocker's publicist Carleen Donovan confirmed the news earlier this month. Kravitz has played supporting roles in the past, including a small part in "The Hunger Games."
Rolling Stone first reported details about the 48-year-old performer's part in the film, directed by Julien Temple.
The magazine says the "Are You Gonna Go My Way" singer will portray Gaye during the 1980s when he was fighting his addictions and attempting to restart his career
Gaye died in 1984 after being shot by his father.
Perry to do OWN series
Oprah Winfrey's OWN network is venturing into scripted programming for the first time through a deal with Tyler Perry.
OWN said Perry will produce, write and direct two series for the cable network to premiere next year. Perry is the creative force behind movies like "Madea's Family Reunion" and the TBS series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne."
Perry credits advice from Winfrey for helping him write his first musical, "I Know I've Been Changed," in 1992.
After its slow start, OWN has been improving its ratings performance recently — in large part through Winfrey's more aggressive booking of interviews for her own show.


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Professor Mara Miele
Professor in Human Geography, Director of Postgraduate Research
School of Geography and Planning
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- Room: 2.77, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WT
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Mara is a Professor in the School with research interests in the areas of Animal Geographies, Post-humanism; Human/non-human animals' relations; Food consumption practices; Ethical consumption.
New Book - Improving farm animal welfare. Science and society working together: the Welfare Quality approach.edited by: Harry Blokhuis, Mara Miele, Isabelle Veissier and Bryan Jones
How do you define the quality of life of a farmed animal? This timely book addresses the complex and often controversial issues surrounding the assessment and improvement of farm animal welfare. It synthesises the huge body of work carried out between 2004 and 2009 by the largest ever international network of scientists and stakeholders working in the EU funded project Welfare Quality. It describes some of the obstacles encountered in developing a dialogue between science and society, the proposed solutions and why particular paths were chosen. The book provides a valuable source of knowledge on farm animal welfare for social and animal scientists, students, teachers, policy makers, lobby groups and the animal industry.
2013, 232 pages, paperback, edited volume
Price (€): 54.00 (excluding VAT)
Also available as an e-book
Download table of contents of the book 'Improving farm animal welfare'. (PDF file).
New report on Halal Slaughter Practices in Wales (2013) by Miele, M., Rucinska, K. and Anil, H. is now available.
House of Beasts Symposium: Enquiries into the Human and the Animal
Shrewsbury, 18th February 2012
Organised by Meadow Arts and hosted by Shropshire Wildlife Trust. The video of Mara's presentation, 'A journey to a slaughterhouse: Geographies of killing, technologies of care', is now available to view.
EU Animal Welfare Strategy 2012-2015 Conference - 'Empowering consumers and creating market opportunities for animal welfare' Brussels, 29th February - 1st March 2012
- Further information is available on the European Commission Conferences webpage.
- Mara's presentation, 'How to influence consumers', is available to view as a pdf file.
Welfare Quality Report Series Complete
The series of Welfare Quality Reports (19 vols) has now been completed. Individual reports are available for download.
New Report on Consumers' Attitude to Animal WelfareMiele, M. (2010) 'Report concerning consumer perceptions and attitudes towards farm animal welfare' Official Experts Report EAWP (task 1.3), Uppsala: Uppsala University.
This report is an official deliverable of the EU VII Framework project European Animal Welfare Platform.
Food Programme on BBC Radio 4Mara participated in the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast on Sunday 21st February, which looked at the growing demand for halal meat in Britain. The programme can be heard again on BBC iPlayer Console - Food Programme: Halal.
Press Release from Dialrel on Recommendations for Good PracticeThe Dialrel project has now ended and the final document, Improving Animal Welfare during Religious Slaughter, Recommendations for Good Practice, is now available.
Letter to NewScientist about Religious Slaughter in Europe and the EU project DialrelA letter sent to NewScientist has been published in the Opinion session of the issue 2377 on November 4th, 2009 with the title 'Meat for a ritual'.
- Final degree (Laurea) in Agricultural Economics (Magna Cum Laude) at Pisa University (Italy), (1984).
- PhD in Social Sciences (dissertation in sociology) at Wageningen University, (2001).
Career Profile
- Professor (2015) School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- Reader (2012 to 2015) School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- Senior Fellow (2004 to 2012) School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- Senior Lecturer (till-2004) Department of Agronomy and Management of the Agro-ecosystem, Pisa University.
Awards and Prizes
Ashby Prize for her paper "The taste of happiness: free-range chicken", awarded by Environment and Planning A for the most innovative papers published in the 2011.
Research Interests
Animal Geographies, Post-humanism; Human/non-human animals' relations; Food consumption practices; Ethical consumption.
More Than Humans
In recent years, my work has developed in dialogue with sociologists and geographers, sharing a general concern with human/non-human animal relations and an attentiveness to human/non-human animal encounters and interfaces. I have looked at food practices as one of these interfaces. Inspired by the work of Elspeth Probyn and Sarah Whatmore among others, I have looked at eating as a way 'to find ourselves in various assemblages, produced and producing ourselves anew'.i
I have developed a growing interest in how ethical relations are enacted and articulated within the different practices and encounters between human and non-human animals. I have become particularly fascinated by the new technologies and social organisations that are transforming the habitats of both farm animals and humans, new breeds of farm animals and new animal farming systems in which humans and animals interact. These assemblages of animals and farming technologies offer insights into the diversity of ideas about good farming and into the specificity of the perceptions of what constitutes a good life for animals. They also entail different interpretations of the ways in which human and non-human animals can interact.
I am currently working on two projects that offer me the opportunity to explore these issues: the first project is the EU-funded 6th Framework Integrated Project Welfare Quality® (2004-2009). I started to work on this project with Jonathan Murdoch, Emma Roe and Adrian Evans (Mara Miele, Jonathan Murdoch and Emma Roe, 'Animals and ambivalence: governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector', in V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Agricultural Governance, Routledge, 2005). I am continuing this work with Adrian Evans, Marc Higgin, Matthew Cole, John Law and Joek Roex. Welfare Quality® is dedicated to the development of a European Standard for animal welfare through a large collaborative effort of animal scientists and social scientists from more than 50 Universities and research laboratories in Europe and Latin America. The animal scientists working in this project have developed animal-based welfare assessment protocols for several classes of farmed animals, based on scientific findings from welfare science research groups in EU Member States. The project is now beginning to examine possible mechanisms for using these assessment protocols to evaluate different animal farming practices. An important outlet for project publications is the Welfare Quality Report series, of which I am co-editor with Joek Roex.
The second project is the EU SSA project Dialrel (2006-2009) with Adrian Evans and Marc Higgin. This project is dedicated to the investigation of practices of religious slaughter (for halal and kosher foods) and aims to establish a dialogue between the various stakeholders involved in these practices and animal scientists and NGOs to address animal suffering at time of slaughter.
The approach we adopt in these two projects draws on the tradition of science and technology studies (STS), actor-network theory (ANT), and material semioticsii and aims to explore the technologies of bonding between human and non-human animals. In addition, it is important to explore how these technologies are enacted and performed within farming practices and within both conventional and religious slaughter practices by following the assemblages of moral and religious discourses, animals, farmers, consumers, researchers, practitioners, engineers and technologies that constitute them. An important dialogue in this work has been with natural scientists involved in experiments and research on the importance of non-human animal emotions in the production of knowledge about the boundaries between animality and humanity for addressing broader societal concerns about human and non-human animal relationships. I am particularly interested in how this dialogue, cultivated through working with animal scientists in these two projects, can develop my understanding of the process of knowledge production, scientific practices and expertise development. While explicit concerns with culture and the location of politics have been the main focus of large parts of science studies in the last two decades, I am interested in exploring how the 'working together' of animal scientists and social scientists towards the production of a joint tool or research outcome is affecting both social and natural scientists' situated logics, practices of knowledge production, and how it is moulding our expertise.
i Elspeth Probyn, Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities, Routledge, 2000.
ii Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003; Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford University Press, 2005; John Law and John Hassard, Actor-Network Theory and After, Blackwell Publishing, 1996; John Law, 'Actor-network theory and material semiotics', Link to publication, 2007; Jonathan Murdoch, Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space, Sage Publications, 2006.
I developed an interest in emerging practices of food consumption around concerns for sustainable development, social justice, environment and animal welfare. Between 1998 and 2007, I coordinated and participated in a range of projects concerned with different ethics and aesthetics of practices and materialities of food consumption. My main interests here were the boundaries between ordinary-ness and reflexive-ness of such practices in everyday life ('Consumption culture? The case of food', in P. Cloke, T. Marsden and P. Mooney (eds), The Handbook of Rural Studies, Sage, 2006). I developed these research interests in collaboration with Jonathan Murdoch, especially within our research on Slow Food in Italy between 1998 and 2005. We addressed these relational issues in a series of articles: 'The practical aesthetics of traditional cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany' (Sociologia Ruralis, vol. 42, no. 4., 2002), 'A new aesthetic of food? Relational reflexivity in the 'alternative' food movement' (in M. Harvey, A. McMeekin and A. Warde (eds), New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition, Manchester University Press, 2004), 'Culinary networks and cultural connections: a conventions perspective' (in A. Hughes and S. Reimer (eds), Geographies of Commodity Chains, Pearson Education, 2003), 'Fast food/slow food: standardizing and differentiating cultures of food' (in R. Almås and G. Lawrence (eds), Globalization, Localization and Sustainable Livelihoods, Ahsgate, 2002). I am continuing this line of research in my interests in Cittá Slow, the slow cities network. Between 1998 and 2001, I collaborated with Vittoria Parisi in a project investigating the ethics and aesthetics of eating meat through Italian consumers' attitudes to animal welfare. The findings of this research are presented in a research monograph (Mara Miele and Vittoria Parisi (eds) Atteggiamento dei consumatori e politiche di qualità della carne in Italia e in Europa negli anni novanta, Edizioni Franco Angeli, 2000).
In the following years, I participated in other researches on consumers attitudes to organic and fair-trade products and political consumption.
More recently, I have become interested in children's consumption practices. I had the opportunity to pursue this interest in an ESRC funded project 'Delivering Sustainability: Towards the Creative Procurement of School Meals', (2005-2008) with Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Roberta Sonnino and Tania Bastia, here in Cardiff. In this project, I am looking at five case studies of school children in the UK and Italy. I am interested in exploring the food habits of children, their tastes for food, their knowledges about local cuisine and the plants and animals that they know as foods, the places they frequent when they eat, the friends/relatives they share food with, and the tools and materials they use and encounter while eating. My interests lie in exploring technologies of belonging that the children use and how they get a sense of place or become emplaced in a locality through the food practices they develop and their sensual experiences of food.
Rurality and Farming
For my doctoral research, I carried out fieldwork in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands with organic farmers, wholesalers, shopkeepers and policy-makers in order to study the social organisation of the emerging market for organic products in Europe and its implication for rural and environmental policies aimed at promoting sustainable development. This work has been published as a research monograph (Mara Miele, Creating Sustainability: The Social Construction of the Market for Organic Products, Wageningen University, 2001).
In the following years, I worked as a Senior Lecturer at Pisa University and continued the research on rural development in collaboration with colleagues in Pisa (Gianluca Brunori, Diego Pinducciu, Antonella Ara), Wageningen (Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, René de Bruin, Henk Renting, Dirk Roep), Cardiff (Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden), Frankfurt (Karlheinz Knickel) and many others within the EU-funded project IMPACT (The Socio-economic Impact of Rural Development Policies). This project set out to understand the impressive and multi-dimensional heterogeneity of European agriculture, conceptualised in terms of farming styles (Jan Douwe van der Ploeg). The research identified the emergence of new development trajectories and the heterogeneous (re-)moulding of nature expressed in fields, animals, plant varieties, and foods.
I have continued a strand of this research within the EU-funded project ESoF (Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers, 2005-2008) looking at Italian farmers, farmers leaders and policy-makers with Terry Marsden, Diego Pinducciu, Antonella Ara and Selyf Morgan. In this project, I am looking at farming as a practical activity, and I am interested in the heterogeneities of the relationships that it produces between human and non-human animals, devices and landscapes. Within this general interest, I am currently exploring the forms of emplacement emerging from farming practices and the emotional construction of place through embedded skills and expertise.
2013: EUWelNet, Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network, DG-Sanco funded project, 1 year, 26 partners, 1Million Euros.
2010-2015: Welfare Quality Network Member of the management team.
2012 - 2014: Principal Investigator 'Assessment of the application of the EU 2010 directive on meat chickens' welfare'. DEFRA, £270,000 (with Bristol and Reading Universities)
2012: Principal Investigator 'The halal meat market in Wales, potentials and barriers', Welsh Government, £20,000 June- September, 2012. 'Report on Halal Slaughter Practices in Wales' (2013) by Mara Miele, Karolina Rucinska, Haluk Anil.
2004 - 2009: Welfare Quality Project Steering Committee member - EU 6th Framework Integrated Project, 51 European partners and 4 partners from Latin America, overall project budget €17m (EU contribution €14.4m);
Coordinator of Science Society Dialogue activities (SP5);
Overall Coordinator of the comparative qualitative investigation on Consumers (focus group research in 7 EU countries) and Principal Investigator for the research on consumers in Italy;
Principal Investigator for the social science investigation of the implementation of the monitoring system in the UK;
Principal Investigator for the Citizens Juries in the UK and in Italy;
Principal Investigator for Cardiff University, budget €2.4M.
The Welfare Quality Protocols for improving animals welfare:
Final Stakeholder Conference, Uppsala, October 2009.
2006 - 2010: Dialrel General Project Coordinator of Dialrel - EU 6th Framework SSA Coordinator of WP4, budget for Cardiff University € 295,000 Euros
2006 - 2008: IAASTD Coordinating Lead Author of the Summary Report on Trade and Regulation for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) of the World Bank; Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 2, Part 2 of the North America-Europe Sub-global.
2007 - 2008: Warming Foods, Pilot study of the contribution to global warming of the food supply chains, budget £20,000.
2005 - 2008: Delivering Sustainability Co-investigator with Prof. Kevin Morgan and Prof. Terry Marsden for ESRC research grant Delivering sustainability: towards the creative procurement of school meals, budget £193,435.
2005 - 2008: Principal Investigator for the UK of EU - ESoF (STREP), Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers, budget for Cardiff University €103,400.
2004: Obesity and Genomics Principal Investigator for Italy of Obesity and Genomics (Dutch Ministry of Research and University), budget €24,000.
2001 - 2004: Conversion Principal Investigator for Italy of Overcoming Barriers to Conversion to Organic Farming in the European Union through Markets for Converion Products (Conversion, partners: Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark and Portugal) EU 5th Framework Programme - QRLT-2000-01112).
1998 - 2001: Impact Co-investigator of The Socio-economic Impact of Rural Development Policies: Realities and Potentials (6 partners: the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Spain) EU - FAIR CT-98-4288, budget €45,000.
1998 - 2001: Animal Welfare Principal investigator for Italy of Consumer Concern About Animal Welfare and Food Choice (5 partners: Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany) EU - FAIR CT98-3678 EU-ELSA-DGIV, budget €170,000.


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Hazelnut Praline Cheesecake
Makes 12 servings
1 1/4 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted
butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/4 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
Hazelnut Praline
32 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 large eggs
For crust: Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 350°F. Butter
9-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Mix flour, butter and
brown sugar in processor until moist clumps form. Press mixture onto bottom of
prepared pan. Bake until crust is golden, about 25 minutes. Cool. Wrap outside
of pan with double layer of heavy-duty foil.
For filling: Reserve 1/2 cup praline for garnish. Grind remaining praline to
powder in processor. Beat cream cheese and sugar, nutmeg in large bowl until
smooth. Beat in flour, then cream and vanilla. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Fold in
praline powder.
Transfer filling to crust. Place springform pan in roasting pan. Pour enough hot
water into roasting pan to come halfway up sides of springform pan. Bake until
center is just set, about 1 hour 20 minutes.
Transfer cake to rack. Run small sharp knife around sides of cake to loosen.
Cool completely. Remove foil from pan sides. Chill cake overnight. (Can be
prepared 3 days ahead. Cover and keep refrigerated.)
Release pan sides. Transfer cake to platter. Mound reserved coarsely crushed
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This Supercar Thrill Ride is your opportunity to find out what it's like to whip around a racetrack with a professional driver behind the wheel of one of the world's most advanced supercars. Hop into the passenger seat of your dream car and strap in for the ride of your life!
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With this Supercar Thrill Ride, you'll feel the rush of speed that race car drivers enjoy everyday, but be careful.... it's addictive!
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- Available July 13th, 14th & 15th, 2018 only
- Helmets will be provided
- Valid form of ID required for age verification at check-in
- Participants must be at least 12 years of age with a signed parental consent form if under 18
- Participants must be at least 54" tall and weigh no more than 350 pounds
- Photos and video of your experience are available for purchase at the track on the day of your experience
DurationExperience lasts approximately 1 hour, however, duration can be extended due to unexpected weather and mechanical issues.
Maximum Participants1 participant and 1 driver per car.
SpectatorsWe encourage you to bring family and friends to share the experience! Spectators will be able to watch from a few designated viewing areas outside the event. Pit passes are available on the day of the event for additional $15 per person (anyone under 12 years old is free) for any spectators who want to be close to the action!
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What are the requirements to ride?
All participants must be between at least 54" tall and weigh less than 350 pounds. Due to track restrictions at this location, all participants must be at least 12 years old to ride.
How many laps are included?
This thrill ride includes 3, heart-pumping laps around the track!
Are photos/video available?
There are multiple photo/video options available for purchase on the day of your experience. Photo packages start at $29 and video packages start at $49 (Prices are subject to change).
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For this experience, you must be between 4'6" and 6'5" tall. However, restrictions vary by car due to limited cabin space.
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*Lamborghini LP560 (Gallardo) - Max height of 6'0"
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SISD supports Nolan County United Way
Through the generosity of the Sweetwater Independent School District team, $7,000 was recently donated to the local Nolan County United Way. This donation will support nine local agencies including Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Senior Nutrition Activities Program (SNAP), Gateway Family Services, West Texas Children's Advocacy Center, Women's Resource Center, Cancer Services Network, Sweetwater Backpack Buddies and Big Country Medical Reserve Corp. Many generous employees pledge monthly payroll deductions to support these local resources that provide support to the community. Annually, Sweetwater ISD is a United Way top contributor.See photos on Page 5.


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Japanese and Chinese Studies: Japanese Studies
JAPN 240 Japanese Language and Culture (Intercultural Communication) (1)
This course explores how Japanese language and communication styles offer insights which enhance our understanding of Japanese culture, society, and the Japanese way of thinking. What are the key aspects of the structure of Japanese language and the accompanying communication style which affect intercultural communication? What does it mean to say that Japanese is a high-context language or features a socially oriented mode of communication? Why do some attempts to communicate between cultures turn out successfully while others do not? In exploring Japanese language, this course will draw on examples of cross-cultural misunderstandings between Japanese and non-Japanese in social, political, and economic contexts. Taught in English.
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In association with Adestra
The tenth annual Email Marketing Industry Census, sponsored by Adestra, is based on the largest UK survey of email marketers.
The census looks at the amount and type of email marketing carried out by organisations, the way that email marketing is conducted, issues affecting the industry and the effectiveness of email compared to other digital marketing channels.
With ten years' worth of data to assess, this provides an unparalleled opportunity to measure the state of the industry and find out how those at the coalface of email marketing are operating.
This report looks in detail at the approaches taken and the resources given to email marketing, as well as issues regarding effectiveness, personalisation, marketing automation, mobile and the future of email.
Over 1,100 respondents took part in the 2016 Census, which took the form of an online survey in February and March 2016.
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- Email again delivers highest ROI ahead of SEO, but is not receiving the budget spend
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- Use of third-party email systems increases significantly
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The 86-page 2016 census report contains insight and comment from leading experts in the email marketing world and associated digital sectors, including:
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Flank Steak with Feta Cheese and Garlic
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Author Notes: When I was growing up, my mom was one of the few moms in our circle who worked outside the home. Despite the fact that she had a full time job as a university professor and wrote three books before I went away to college, she always made a home cooked dinner that was delicious. I learned my basic cooking philosophy from her -- there is no such thing as being too busy to cook from scratch. Now that I'm a working mom (with no books, but a blog), I appreciate recipes like this one, which I got from her. It's flavorful, simple, and above all fast, and allows me to get dinner on the table after I get home from work with a minimum of stress. —Savour
Serves: 4
To prepare the steak:
flank steak, about 2-3 lbs.
tablespoons olive oil
teaspoons crumbled dried rosemary
For the cheese topping:
ounces feta cheese
cloves garlic, minced
tablespoons chopped Italian parsley
teaspoon crumbled dried rosemary
tablespoons milk
- Score the flank steak on both sides with a diamond pattern.
- Season steak with salt and pepper, rub in olive oil and rosemary and leave to marinate at least one hour.
- Preheat your broiler.
- Combine feta, garlic, rosemary, parsley and some freshly ground pepper. Thin to a spreadable consistency with milk.
- Broil flank steak for 3 minutes on 1 side. Flip and broil 1-2 minutes. (Times indicated are for a relatively thin flank steak cooked rare. I use the hand test to test doneness - I poke it and if it feels like the meaty part between my thumb and index finger it's about right.)
- Spread the feta mixture on top of the entire steak. Broil until bubbly.
- Let steak rest for a minute or two, then slice on the diagonal.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for The Best Recipe or Technique Your Mother Taught You
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Broiled Steak
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A feast in a paper bag
Shopping for groceries recently I noticed a lot of pre-packaged foods for sack lunches.
The thought of sack lunches triggered some great memories and I quickly concluded that the stuff in the supermarket couldn't hold a candle to what I found in the sack lunches my mother packed when I was a kid.
For several years we lived within a quick walk of our school and I enjoyed going home for the noon meal. We called it "dinner." Back then lunch hours were actually an hour long and many small town kids enjoyed the luxury of eating their noon meals at home. Occasionally, however, we took a sack lunch to school. During my junior high days we lived on a farm and Mom packed sack lunches for us kids each day.
We didn't have those cute little paper bags designed for sack lunches. My lunches traveled in a previously used paper bag. If a smaller sack was not available, a large grocery sack rolled down to size quite nicely.
Mom's idea of a sack lunch was much grander than some. Most of what we ate back then was homemade, including the bread from which our sandwiches were made and the jelly which was spread on it.
A normal sack lunch, as I recall, included four sandwiches (four slices of bread,) a piece of cake, two or three cookies, carrot sticks and, perhaps, an apple or orange.
Can you believe it — I actually got tired of all that homemade food? My friends' hot lunch food looked tempting at times and, I noticed, my sack lunch fare appeared equally tempting to some of them. You can guess what happened we bartered. My homemade goodies were worth a great deal on the hot lunch exchange.
Fortunately, this school allowed the sack lunch kids to eat with the hot lunch kids. A school I attended earlier segregated the two groups, something I never understood. Call me paranoid, but when I was a kid I thought it was some sort of prejudice toward the kids who couldn't afford hot lunch. You don't suppose the policy makers worried that some chubby kid would trade his homemade food for hot lunch food and create anarchy in the lunchroom, do you?
One noon I ripped into my sack lunch and took a big bite of a sandwich only to discover that it was all bread. No butter, no jelly, no peanut butter, no cheese, no baloney. I checked the other sandwiches. Sure enough, just plain bread there, too. Not one to pass up a meal for any reason, I ate all four naked sandwiches.
Later in the day I discovered what had happened. My great-aunt Annie Tante Aintje, we called her was visiting our home at the time. Tante Aintje loved to talk and she and my mother were so immersed in conversation that morning Mom forgot to put anything on my sandwiches.
One of the last lunches Mom prepared for me was equally memorable. It was the day I graduated from high school and my first full day on a summer job. Mom had packed a box lunch for me literally a small corrugated cardboard box full of lunch. There were the customary sandwiches, cake, cookies, carrot sticks and fruit plus two Thermos bottles one filled with soup, the other with milk.
It seemed like a normal lunch to me, but when I carried it into the office a couple of my co-workers chuckled and wanted to know which army I was going to feed. After that I ate my lunch in my car.
After receiving my first paycheck I began treating myself to lunch at a nearby drive-in restaurant, foolishly thinking that restaurant food was better than the lunches Mom packed.
It didn't take long to admit I was wrong but by then I realized Mom had enough to do feeding Dad and the other five kids so I never asked her to pack a lunch for me again.
I looked over the pre-packaged stuff in the supermarket the other day and quickly decided that it didn't rival the feast of goodies our mother packed into our sack lunches even the naked homemade bread sandwiches.


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Illinoisans awoke Tuesday to 150 new state laws on the books, including a ban on the sale or trade of shark fin, a new strip club surcharge and a number of less widely publicized laws -- such as ambulances no longer being required to pay tolls.
The 150 laws are far fewer than the 214 state laws that went into effect in 2012, perhaps a result of the Illinois state legislature having another thing or two on the agenda this year.
We rounded up some of the most noteworthy new Illinois laws effective Jan. 1, 2013. Read a full list of the new Illinois laws.
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Theresa B. Kinyon, registered nurse, hospital volunteer
Oct. 14, 1926 – April 27, 2013
LOCKPORT – Theresa B. Kinyon, of Lockport, a registered nurse and hospital volunteer, died Saturday in Briody Health Care Facility after a brief illness. She was 86.
Born Theresa Balling in the City of Tonawanda, she was a graduate of Tonawanda High School and the Buffalo General Hospital School of Nursing.
She was a nurse at Buffalo General Hospital, where she met her future husband when he was a patient, then worked as a nurse at Lockport Memorial Hospital until she left to raise a family.
Later, she was a volunteer in the hospital's gift shop.
Mrs. Kinyon was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and its Altar and Rosary Society. She also was a Girl Scout leader and enjoyed bowling in several women's leagues at Allie Brandt Lanes.
Two of her sons, Gary and Carl, are members of the Lockport Bowling Association Hall of Fame.
Also surviving are her husband of 64 years, Roy E.; another son, Bruce; and a daughter, Kathryn Schultz.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in St. John the Baptist Church, 168 Chestnut St.


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By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans don't like all the cash that's going to super political action committees and other outside groups that are pouring millions of dollars into races for president and Congress.
More than 8 in 10 Americans in a poll by The Associated Press and the National Constitution Center support limits on the amount of money given to groups that are trying to influence U.S. elections.
But they might have to change the Constitution first. The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case removed limits on independent campaign spending by businesses and labor unions, calling it a constitutionally protected form of political speech.
"Corporate donations, I think that is one of the biggest problems today," said Walter L. Cox Sr., 86, of Cleveland. "They are buying the White House. They are buying public office."
Cox, a Democrat, was one of many people in the poll who do not, in spite of the high court ruling, think corporate and union campaign spending should be unlimited.
The strong support for limiting the amount of money in politics stood alongside another poll finding that shows Americans have a robust view of the right to free speech. Seventy-one percent of the 1,006 adults in the AP-NCC poll said people should have the right to say what they please, even if their positions are deeply offensive to others.
The ringing endorsement of First Amendment freedoms matched the public's view of the Constitution as an enduring document, even as Americans hold the institutions of government, other than the military, in very low regard.
"The Constitution is 225 years old and 70 percent of Americans continue to believe that it's an enduring document that's relevant today, even as they lose faith in some of the people who have been given their job descriptions by the Constitution," said David Eisner, the constitution center's chief executive officer.
For the first time in the five years the poll has been conducted, more than 6 in 10 Americans favor giving same-sex couples the same government benefits as opposite-sex married couples. That's an issue, in one form or another, the Supreme Court could take up in the term that begins Oct. 1.
More than half of Americans support legal recognition of gay marriage, although that number is unchanged from a year ago. In the past three years, though, there has been both a significant uptick in support for gay marriage, from 46 percent to 53 percent, and a decline in opposition to it, from 53 percent to 42 percent.
Loretta Hamburg, 68, of Woodland Hills, Calif., tried to explain why support for gay marriage lags behind backing for same-sex benefits.
"If they've been in a long relationship and lived together and if it's a true relationship, long lasting, it would be OK to have the same rights," Hamburg said.
But she does not support a same-sex union because "it would open up a lot of other things, like a man wanting two or three wives. I believe in marriage. They could call it something else if they want to give it a different definition. But I don't think it's right and that's what I feel."
The poll also found a slight increase in the share of Americans who say voting rights for minorities require legal protection, although the public is divided over whether such laws still are needed. Sixty percent of Democrats say those protections are still needed, compared with 40 percent of independents and 33 percent of Republicans.
One potential influence was that the survey was conducted amid lawsuits and political rhetoric over the validity of voter identification laws in several states. The laws mainly have been backed by Republican lawmakers who say they want to combat voter fraud. Democrats, citing academic studies that found there is very little voter fraud, have called the laws thinly veiled attempts to make it harder for Democratic-leaning minority voters to cast ballots.
Two areas in which there has been little change in public attitudes in spite of major events are gun control and President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
No matter that the Supreme Court upheld the health law, nearly three-fourths of Americans say the government should not have the power to require people to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. It didn't matter in the poll whether the penalty was described as a tax or a fine.
The July 20 mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater that killed 12 people and wounded 58 others did not move opinion on gun rights, where 49 percent oppose gun control measures and 43 percent said limits on gun ownership would not infringe on the constitutional right to bear arms.
Retired Army Col. Glenn Werther, 62, called the Colorado shootings a "horrible thing," but said gun control is not the answer to curbing violence. "There are crazy people out there. How you monitor that, I have no idea," said Werther, a resident of Broad Brook, Conn., and a member of the National Rifle Association. "People are going to get guns that should not have them."
The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that operates a Philadelphia museum and other educational programs about the Constitution.
The AP-NCC Poll was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Aug. 16-20, using landline and cellphone interviews with 1,006 randomly chosen adults. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Associated Press Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta, AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius and AP writer Stacy Anderson contributed to this report.
Poll: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com
National Constitution Center: http://constitutioncenter.org/
How the poll was conducted
The Associated Press-National Constitution Center Poll on constitutional issues was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Aug. 16-20. It is based on landline and cellphone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults. Interviews were conducted with 604 respondents on landline telephones and 402 on cellular phones.
Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cellphone numbers.
Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish.
As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, education and race. In addition, the weighting took into account patterns of phone use — landline only, cell only and both types — by region.
No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3.9 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all adults in the U.S. were polled.
There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions.
Topline results are available at http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com and http://surveys.ap.org.
The questions and results are available at http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com .


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Content Insider 249 - Taking Her PlaceMassive Talent Shortage or Just Shortsighted
"If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it." - Doralee, "Nine to Five," 20th Century Fox, 1980
According to a recent report by Oxford Economics that spelled out the what companies should seek out in their executives in the years ahead, the key attributes are: digital knowledge and agile thinking as well as interpersonal and communication skills.
People should have been excited when Yahoo! snagged Marissa Mayer as their CEO. She certainly has all of those attributes.
So why all the bluster? Oh yeah, she's female and OMG she just had a baby boy!
Over half of the world's population can do that. It's called procreation.
Better them than us!
We doubt if the next generation of Mayer will drain her talents or make her any less decisive (O.K., some Googlites said autocratic).
Gee, maybe there is a gender bias.
A guy wears hoodies, flip-flops and another wears black turtle necks and jeans. They're creative.
A gal does that and she's a slob, doesn't care how she looks, so how can you respect her?
Eddie looked at a female boss and said, "Lady, you're gonna *hate* it, here."
Female Tech Leaders
Since the beginning, there have been a lot of female notables starting with Lady Lovelace who developed the first computer program for Babbage's analytical engine.
Then there was Rear Admiral Grace Hopper who developed the compiler programming language (and a lot more programming firsts) and who popularized debugging when a moth was removed from a system, hence debugging.
How about Sally Ride, the first female astronaut in space. A pretty smart engineer (think you have to be to land that job), you can say she shot right by the glass ceiling for women
The industry has its share of seasoned pros running organization's today.
Virginia Rommety runs one of the most diverse and far-reaching companies in the industry ... IBM.
She's a little atypical compared to today's crop of female execs because she literally grew up in IBM. And because the company tended to encourage all of their employees, they kept giving her more than she could handle and she handled it.
Another highly visible female is HP's Meg Whitman.
Unlike those mentioned earlier, she doesn't come with a strong engineering background but she did quite well in helping grow eBay before leaving for semi-retirement.
Yes, that retirement included a run for California's governorship (lost, but she used her own money in the race).
Running for Congress at the same time was a lady she replaced at HP- two "guys" in between - Carly Fiorina. Honestly, we rooted for her at first but she just didn't understand, didn't want to understand the "HP Way."
To Meg's credit, she's given the company what it so desperately needed - quiet confidence. Will she be able to fend off the barbarians before they tear the company apart? You sorta', kinda' hope so.
A lady you may not have heard too much about is Alice Chang, CEO of Taiwan's CyberLink (software firm), who runs a tight ship and is deeply involved in the firm's OEM and end-user sales.
Trying to determine what will be designed and available six to nine months from now when technology and devices are changing so rapidly is...interesting!
She's more typical (she's gotta' hate the way we said that) of the Pacific Basin and Southeast Asia where qualified women are more readily accepted as engineers, managers and CEOs.
Skipping a lot of very strong, very solid women who have made significant contributions, we're back to Marissa Mayer who (once removed) replaced a very strong lady with a solid engineering background, Carol Bartz.
We respect Ms. Bartz and had high hopes of her being able to bring Yahoo! back to its earlier glory, but her personality just didn't sit well with the folks she worked with (and if Googlites thought Ms. Mayer was autocratic!) and what worked Autodesk just didn't fly at Yahoo!
We can envision her quoting Violet and saying, "I know just where to *stick* it."
Ms Mayer knows her way around the Web industry (and where the bodies are buried). And given some working room with the customers and employees (the folks who count, not the board), her company could put serious hurt on Zuck.
After all, she dresses better, she's smarter, she has a talent for design (discerning customers care about design), she's visible and outgoing; and now, she could do something Zuck will never do...play the mommy card!
She won't, but ... she could.
Fortune 500 Leaders
Less than 15 of the Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs, and that may not be equitable.
It will probably never be 50-50, but the winds of change are circling the globe.
Ernst & Young recently noted that there is a huge flood of female talent coming through the educational systems in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and other countries outside of the US and EU (European Union).
They'll be prepared to handle the highest level of business jobs in the years ahead.
According to the last Zenger Folkman/Harvard Business Review study, women rated higher than men in nearly every leadership effectiveness category.
O.K., everything except strategic perspective. But when you're in a swamp up to your you know what in alligators, it's sometimes tough to remember that your job was to drain the swamp.
But in today's ever-changing marketplace, we don't think any CEO, any manager, feels their job is safe; and when they've arrived, that they can simply sit back with their feet up on the desk.
Frankly, most CEOs we know border on being paranoid on seeing what's over the horizon and achieving their next big goal. It's what makes them good bosses.
Things are changing rapidly and with the way organizations have to rethink their global strategies, business models and organizational structure, you have to wonder if we can afford to have a real or unrealized bias for half of the world's population (actually, less than half are men).
The challenge was exhibited again this year at the Davos World Economic Forum where world business/government leaders come together to figure out how to lift the economy out of its "slump."
Now remember, these are supposed to be Nuevo smart folks:
- 80 percent of the attendees were male
- 1 to 0 females were on every panel
- 1 of 6 co-chairs of the event was female
- At one CEO lunch there was one female boss and everyone exchanged business cards ... she didn't get one
We've still got "a little" work to do for equality and are at a point in time when change is of the essence.
Ironically, emerging markets - BRIC and the UAE (United Arab Emirates) seem to be more intent on recruiting, hiring, retaining top talent regardless of gender.
Of course, when more than half of the college graduates and half the workforce are female, there may be times when the best man for the top job is a woman.
Violet made her point when she said, "There is no need to get sarcastic!"
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